Some dissent emerges on new engineering contract with Boeing
Some dissent among rank-and-file members of Boeing’s engineering union emerged Friday morning in reaction to the tentative new contract deal agreed on late Thursday with company management.
The leadership of SPEEA, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, announced Thursday evening a proposal to extend the current contract by four years, to 2026, and said it would recommend the deal to its 18,000 members.
But SPEEA’s union council reps, who deal more directly with the rank-and-file employees, declined to endorse the proposal.
SPEEA staff and the seven-member executive board had been negotiating with management under nondisclosure agreements, and revealed the details of the proposed contract only on Thursday afternoon to the union council reps, the foot soldiers who represent the union to their members in the offices and on the factory floor.
SPEEA Executive Director Ray Goforth said Friday the union’s engineering council reps voted 35 to 24 against recommending approval of the deal, while the technical staff council reps voted 20 to 13 against. But neither group reached a decisive vote to recommend rejecting the contract.
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